The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-19
THROUGH THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West Virginia
4ss u.s. 's-iG and Vicinity, - j.. --=t ct5.4I

Mr.. B. F. Harrison has resigned the
Office Of Mayor Of the town Of Shepherds.
town. .5.- p E. - II E,
The County Court Of Fayotta county
has again refused to grant license to par.
ties desiring to sell spirituous liquors.
Tho Ronceverte Ne,cs says Fort Spring
and Aideraon are crowded with summer
visitors, mostly from Louisville and the
South.
Track laying on the Huntington extern
sion Of tho OHIO River road will commence
this week. A start will be made by the
delivery Of 1000 tons OF steel raila. .5
a dead catfish was found on the beach
fronting Gallipolis few daya ago, which
weighed IS pounds. It was supposed to
have been etruck by the wheel of q
steamboat. ..,2e'%...s
The guests at the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs now number about five
hundred. With the first OF August the
huge place will fill up rapidly and the sea.
son be at its hight.
This Presbyterian church at Fayet!e-
Vile was struck by lightniuga few days
since. The ateeple was shivered aud the
huid passing down through the roof tore
q large opening. The chandelier was
destroyed and the stove overturned.
The True murder case is set for trial in
the Doddridge county Circnit Court at
this term, and is to commence tomorrow,
A great number OF witnesses havs been
summoned, and it is probable that the
case will consume several days time. The
Gaze was tried ct last November's tenn
but the jury failed to agree, 81
At tho Irondsle mines in Preston coun-
ty Stephen Guassic, a Hungarian, acci.
dentally ahot and killed John Rudhe,
also Hun, who was trying to sell the
former revolver. Rudhe told bis
friend 10 snap the weapon to see that it
worked all right, forgetting that it Was
loaded. and received the load in the heart.
An unknown negro has been placed in
jail at Ronceyerte, charged with robbing.
DO was seen to break into houae at Fort
Spring occupied by railroad men where he
rided the trunks OF aeverat yaIuahles.
The police surprised him while he was at
work, bat he started to run and it was
only after several shots had been fred at
him that he halted. 81 s,55, 5%'1
A sad accident occurred in Mason coun.
ty q few days aince. Mrs. Mary Brown,
mother Of William Brown, q well.knogn
citizen, eighty-four years OF age, Tor years
past has been in the habit OF getting up in
her sleep and wandering about her room.
In this case she opened the shutters OF a
window opening out on the roof OF por.
tico, walking out on this she stepped OF,
fell q distance Of sixteen feet and was in
atantly killed. .,il,i3ll.eS
A tiye.year.old child OF q man named
Watson, living at Evansville, Preston
county, while playing about The house,
was bitten in the wrist by large copper.
head snake. Tho snake fastened It's fanvu
go deeply in the child's wrist that Tia
reptile could not free itself, but hung TO
the little ones wrist until tbs large family
dog laid hold OF the snake and tore it
loose and shook the life out 1t. The child
was severely bitten, and ito recovery ia
considered an impossibility. FSH' Al ma
Considerable excitement was occasional
a few days since near Hsrnid's, in pres.
ton county, by tho appearance Of an old
sho bear and two cubs who deliberately
aitco o tbHSA tf HRft iih5 S3SGD 1eiOtiR.
ing to William Hsrnid The old hear has
been seen in that section 70. the laa. two
or three years and numerous parties have
been organized ior the destruction d Of
brnin, but they always fail to destroy,
After this last eiFert more determined
effort was made to extermiaa.e the basrs
but resulted as heretofore, in a failure. h
LAST week Charleston WA yieited with.
one OF tho mest terrific thunder storms
ever experienced in that locality, accom-
panied with fal! Of rain that caused a
food Of water ouch as vas never known
there before in so short period OF time.
1t ueemed but a few minuteb until the
streeta were flooded from side to side, md
Eyitts run was away out OF its banks,
ttoaming torrent, carrying destruction in
lts pathway. In town many cellars were
filled with water, and their contents dc.
stroycd or damsged. The loss viii
amount to considerable. Several houses
were struck by lightning. 49,